Is Certainty Possible in Science? | Dr. Brian Carl

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🗓️ 8 March 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Brian T. Carl earned his Ph.D. in Philosophy from The Catholic University of America. He is an assistant professor at the Center for Thomistic Studies at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas. His research focuses on Thomistic metaphysics, philosophical theology, cognitive theory, and moral psychology.

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0:59.2	My thanks for the invitation to be here with you, and my thanks to all of you for coming and being here tonight.
1:06.1	I've presented actually for this chapter of the Temistic Institute before, but it was several years ago during COVID.
1:11.6	So this is a much better experience of Ithaca than doing it over Zoom.
1:15.6	Before I speak about any questions concerning science or touch upon anything having to do with contemporary philosophy of science,
1:24.6	I should just begin up front with an admission.
1:26.6	First, I'm not a trained scientist.
1:28.3	I actually asked Zach if you would ask how many of you are in the sciences,
1:32.3	and I feel like I'm in front of the firing line now, which is good.
1:36.3	It's a good place to be.
1:38.3	But I'm not a trained scientist, and even contemporary philosophy of science is for me at best something that I could put down on my CV as an area of competence rather than an area of specialization.
1:51.0	The Thomist, upon whose thought I'm going to depend to a great extent in this presentation, the Dominican Father William Wallace,
1:59.0	offers the warning in several places and also offered it personally to a few friends of mine,
2:03.6	that those who don't have significant training in the sciences really ought not venture too far into questions in philosophy of science
2:13.6	or questions concerning the reconciliation and integration of Aristotelian
2:18.8	and Thomistic philosophy of nature with contemporary science. So I'm going to be treading
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